Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:36:10 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Angelo Christou <christou44@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locked out remotely Message-ID: <4408464A.2050506@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20060303131802.30174.qmail@web37304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060303131802.30174.qmail@web37304.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Angelo Christou wrote: >Hello list. I have a regular user account on a remote >box running FreeBSD 6 and I need to reboot it. The >user account is not part of the wheel group. I have >the root password for local login but I cant su (su: >Sorry). Is there anything at all I can do or am I >totally helpless until I can access the datacenter >where the server is? > >Any ideas at all would be most helpful. I think I'm >screwed. Thankyou > > Check the permissions on "/sbin/shutdown". If you are in the right group to execute it (operator on my system) then you should be able to shutdown -r, otherwise, short of exploiting any unpatched security holes (joke!) you probably need physical access. --Alex
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